Kavin Yao
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKavin Yao is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years focused on backend development, distributed systems, and privacy controls, and experience at Facebook and Cardinal. Based in San Francisco, he combines rigorous academic training from Nanjing University and Stanford with practical, production-first engineering. He excels at designing resilient, privacy-aware architectures that scale across large user bases and complex data flows. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving and a single-threaded focus that drives deep, reliable implementations. Outside work he brings a playful humility—self-described as a "1/10X engineer" and a light-theme enthusiast—signaling both confidence and approachability.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Nanjing UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
2,981reputation
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Github Skills (26)
autocomplete10
ssh10
git9
ssh-keys9
runit9
liquid9
latex8
scheme8
html6
xpath6
jekyll6
lxml6
python6
jinja26
django6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kavinyao/linux-programming-notes
Feb 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 2 years 1 month
kchard/runit-quickstart
Jul 2015 - Mar 2023
Getting started with the runit - a UNIX init scheme with service supervision
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 9 months
schemeunixrunitsupervisioninit
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